Amy Wlodarski

Amy Lynn Wlodarski is an American music historian. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow, she is the author of Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation and George Rochberg, American Composer (2019) and is a professor at Dickinson College.

Biography Amy Wlodarski was born to Terri and Fred Wlodarski, and she obtained her BA (1997) at Middlebury College and MA (2001) and PhD (2006) at Eastman School of Music; During her postgraduate studies, she was given a German-American Fulbright Program scholarship to study at Free University of Berlin and spent some time living in the Greater Boston area for her doctorate. She won the Oral History Association Postsecondary Teaching Award in 2010. She became the Charles A. Dana Endowed Chair in 2021. In 2011, she and Elaine Kelly were co-editors of Art Outside the Lines, an essay volume on the East German arts. She won the 2016 Lewis Lockwood Award for her book Musical Witness and Holocaust Representation, which its publisher Cambridge University Press called the "first musicological study entirely devoted to a comprehensive analysis of musical Holocaust representations in the Western art music tradition". She won the 2020 Book Prize of the American Musicological Society Jewish Studies and Music Group for her next book George Rochberg, American Composer (2020), which explores how George Rochberg's personal trauma influenced his work.

In 2022, Wlodarski became editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. as part of the fellowship, her next historical project is on the international reception of the Viktor Ullmann opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis.